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Company Name: Adaptive Digital Technologies, Inc.

Leadership

President, Founder

Brian McCarthy, is the originator of Adaptive Digital’s product line of voice compression, echo cancellation and telephony signaling.

Brian incorporates over twenty nine years of experience into his DSP development and leadership responsibilities for Adaptive Digital. His professional research and product development initiated at RCA Corporation where he worked in the Voice Compression Group, followed by a research position of new voice compression techniques at Interdigital Corporation. Brian also developed and researched voice compression software for Bell Laboratories before founding Adaptive Digital. He earned his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Villanova University. He is currently an instructor at Villanova, teaching real-time digital processing.

About Fraunhofer

Fraunhofer IIS, based in Erlangen, Germany, is the home of the Audio and Multimedia division, which has been working in compressed audio technology for more than 20 years and remains a leading innovator of technologies for cutting-edge multimedia systems. Fraunhofer IIS is universally credited with the development of mp3 and co-development of AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) as well as technologies for the media world of tomorrow, including MPEG Surround, MPEG Spatial Audio Object Coding and the Fraunhofer Audio Communication Engine.

Through the course of more than two decades, Fraunhofer IIS has licensed its audio codec software and application-specific customizations to at least 1,000 companies. Fraunhofer estimates that it has enabled more than 1 billion commercial products worldwide using its mp3, AAC and other media technologies.

The Fraunhofer IIS organization is part of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, based in Munich, Germany. Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is Europe’s largest applied research organization and is partly funded by the German government. With nearly 15,000 employees worldwide, Fraunhofer- Gesellschaft is composed of 57 Institutes conducting research in a broad range of research areas. For more information, contact Matthias Rose, matthias.rose@iis.fraunhofer.de, or visit www.iis.fraunhofer.de/amm .